Posted on 06/07/2011 5:20:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
Crouched in her cell, Ophelia De'lonta hoped three green disposable razors from the prison commissary would give her what the Virginia Department of Corrections will not a sex change.
It had been several years since she had felt the urges, but she had been fighting them for weeks. But like numerous other times, she failed to get rid of what she calls "that thing" between her legs, the last evidence she was born a male.
Months after the October castration attempt, De'lonta filed a federal lawsuit Friday claiming the state has failed its duty to provide adequate medical care because it won't give her the operation. She says the surgery is needed to treat her gender identity disorder, a mental illness in which people believe they were born the wrong gender.
If she wins, De'lonta would be the nation's first inmate to receive a state-funded sex change operation. Similar lawsuits have failed in a handful of other states, and lawmakers in some states are trying to ban the use of taxpayer money for the operations.
If she loses, she says she will continue to try self-surgery acknowledging another attempt could kill her.
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Years ago she legally changed her name. Ophelia was chosen for the Shakespearean woman who died for love; De'lonta because it was the last name of a slain friend; middle name Azriel for the angel who helps one cross over.
De'lonta first tried to cut herself when she was 12. By 17, she was robbing banks with the hopes of getting enough money to have a sex change operation. By 18, she was in prison, sentenced to more than 70 years for robbery, drugs, weapons and other charges.
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It had been several years since she he had felt the urges, but she he had been fighting them for weeks. But like numerous other times, she he failed to get rid of what she hecalls "that thing" between her his legs, the last evidence she he was born a male.
Sorry, but I can't stand these ridiculous attempts to give validity to this sick creature's fantasies. Every single solitary cell in HIS body is a MALE cell no matter what HE cuts off or mutilates.
Agreed.
I have an old rusty pocket knife lying around here somewhere that I don’t need. I would be glad to send it to him./s/
Seriously though, Here we have a bank robber, drug user ,dangerous felon, who wants to cut off his penis.
They used to have mental institutions for dangerous crazed a-holes like this.
A good point. Now we have diversity days to celebrate them
Dog Day Afternoon redux.
Anyone who calls this man a “she”, should pay for its operation
Anyone who calls this man a “she”, should pay for its surgery
That's a big question, and it's not politically correct even to look into the answers. If the problem is "odd ideas", then therapy should help a man with those ideas to accept the fact that his anatomy includes male parts. If the problem is brain chemistry, then I would expect the right medications to help. If the problem is a physical disorder, then it's harder to treat, but there may be either a form of therapy or a chemical that can help the person to adjust to the disability.
We have, for some bizarre reason, decided to treat the problem as the body not matching the brain, not as a physical/chemical/emotional problem in the brain, and sadly we're not even considering how to treat the real problem. I'm curious what the real answer is, but we'll have to wait until the hateful left moves on to "help" another group before we even look into how to help these people.
That “thing” is the last evidence? So, removal of the Prostrate with a disposable razor was successful?
Robbing banks for a sex change? Someone saw Dog Day Afternoon too many times.
Today they don’t think a man who wants to cut off his dick is insane.
Now it is touchy-feely he really wants to be a woman.
Its. BullS-— is what it is. This criminal is crazy as a loon.
SO what is it with convicted criminals suddenly wanting a sex-change operation? You were busted, some things about life aren’t supposed to be that great. I would be willing to bet plenty of regular men would be disappointed that they couldn’t regularly get some woman every now and then either. What does this person want? Reduced punishment? A chance at a woman for a cellmate? Either way, this whole feeling that we somehow need to oblige to fill some person’s request for a procedure and lasting hormone therapies which I doubt are both cheap, is rediculous.
Robbing banks? Sounds like “Dog Day Afternoon”.
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